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Wise Owl's SQL Training Courses

Shaun (one of our 7 Wise Owl trainers)

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Benefits of our SQL training

Not sure if we deserve all the reviews you can see on this site? Here are some of the things we do (very) differently to earn them.

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Friendly and professional training ... guaranteeed▼

How can any training company guarantee the quality of their courses? Here's how:

We limit our courses to no more than 6 people per class.
Unlike almost every other computer training company, we never subcontract or use freelancers - here's why this matters.

The best courseware in the industry? See for yourself▼

Our course manuals and exercises are by some way the best in the computer training industry. Fortunately you don't have to take our word for this - you can see for yourself:

Genuine integrity - and good manners▼

Our values are simple - we treat people as we would like to be treated ourselves. So:

We will - almost never - cancel courses. To see what "almost never" means see our no cancel guarantee.
There's nothing worse than being pestered, so we don't pester people. Ever.
It's dangerous to be sanctimionius, but we can see no possible benefit that tobacco and gambling companies bring to the world (and quite a lot of harm), so we choose not to work for them. Sorry.

You can see more on our corporate values here.

Innovative online training platform▼

We've put a lot of thought into making our online courses as useful and interactive as possbile:

Delegates use Remote Desktop to connect to our machines, so our trainers can see everyone's screens at all time.
We arrange (without charge) a half-hour pre-course check for each online delegate before courses, to ensure that they everyone will be able to join the course seamlessly when it begins.
As well as providing a PDF of the manual and exercises for each online course delegate we will (again without charge) also post this out to each person a few days before if required.

Choose a specific course, or stay on this page to see all of our SQL training.

Course:

Our current SQL scheduled courses

Can't see the dates/course type that you want? Create your own onsite course (and tailor the content too!).

Course	Dates	Venue/type	Duration	Price	Times
We don't have any scheduled courses for this combination of criteria: please try different options.
Introduction to SQL	Tue/Wed 20-21 May 2025 20-21 May	Online	2 days	£875.00 + VAT	09:30-16:30	Book
Fast track SQL	Wed/Fri 11-13 June 2025 11-13 Jun	Online	3 days	£1,350.00 + VAT	09:30-16:30	Book
Advanced SQL	Mon/Tue 16-17 June 2025 16-17 Jun	Online	2 days	£995.00 + VAT	09:30-16:30	Book
Introduction to SQL	Wed/Thu 18-19 June 2025 18-19 Jun	Online	2 days	£875.00 + VAT	09:30-16:30	Book
Introduction to SQL	Tue/Wed 24-25 June 2025 24-25 Jun	London	2 days	£1,425.00 + VAT	09:30-16:30	Book
Advanced SQL	Tue/Wed 24-25 June 2025 24-25 Jun	London	2 days	£1,525.00 + VAT	09:30-16:30	Book
SQL in Azure Data Studio (*)	Wed/Thu 25-26 June 2025 25-26 Jun	Online	2 days	£875.00 + VAT	09:30-16:30	Book
Introduction to SQL	Mon/Tue 07-08 July 2025 07-08 Jul	Manchester	2 days	£1,050.00 + VAT	09:30-16:30	Book
Advanced SQL	Mon/Tue 14-15 July 2025 14-15 Jul	Online	2 days	£995.00 + VAT	09:30-16:30	Book
Introduction to SQL	Mon/Tue 21-22 July 2025 21-22 Jul	Online	2 days	£875.00 + VAT	09:30-16:30	Book
Fast track SQL	Wed/Fri 23-25 July 2025 23-25 Jul	Online	3 days	£1,350.00 + VAT	09:30-16:30	Book
Advanced SQL	Thu/Fri 24-25 July 2025 24-25 Jul	Manchester	2 days	£1,150.00 + VAT	09:30-16:30	Book
SQL in Azure Data Studio (*)	Thu/Fri 24-25 July 2025 24-25 Jul	Online	2 days	£875.00 + VAT	09:30-16:30	Book
Advanced SQL	Thu/Fri 14-15 August 2025 14-15 Aug	Online	2 days	£995.00 + VAT	09:30-16:30	Book
Introduction to SQL	Wed/Thu 20-21 August 2025 20-21 Aug	Online	2 days	£875.00 + VAT	09:30-16:30	Book
SQL in Azure Data Studio (*)	Wed/Thu 20-21 August 2025 20-21 Aug	Online	2 days	£875.00 + VAT	09:30-16:30	Book
Introduction to SQL	Mon/Tue 01-02 September 2025 01-02 Sep	Manchester	2 days	£1,050.00 + VAT	09:30-16:30	Book
Advanced SQL	Mon/Tue 01-02 September 2025 01-02 Sep	Manchester	2 days	£1,150.00 + VAT	09:30-16:30	Book
Fast track SQL	Wed/Fri 10-12 September 2025 10-12 Sep	Online	3 days	£1,350.00 + VAT	09:30-16:30	Book
Advanced SQL	Mon/Tue 15-16 September 2025 15-16 Sep	Online	2 days	£995.00 + VAT	09:30-16:30	Book
Introduction to SQL	Thu/Fri 18-19 September 2025 18-19 Sep	Online	2 days	£875.00 + VAT	09:30-16:30	Book
Introduction to SQL	Tue/Wed 23-24 September 2025 23-24 Sep	London	2 days	£1,425.00 + VAT	09:30-16:30	Book
Advanced SQL	Tue/Wed 23-24 September 2025 23-24 Sep	London	2 days	£1,525.00 + VAT	09:30-16:30	Book
SQL in Azure Data Studio (*)	Thu/Fri 25-26 September 2025 25-26 Sep	Online	2 days	£875.00 + VAT	09:30-16:30	Book
Introduction to SQL	Thu/Fri 02-03 October 2025 02-03 Oct	Manchester	2 days	£1,050.00 + VAT	09:30-16:30	Book
Advanced SQL	Thu/Fri 02-03 October 2025 02-03 Oct	Manchester	2 days	£1,150.00 + VAT	09:30-16:30	Book
Advanced SQL	Mon/Tue 13-14 October 2025 13-14 Oct	Online	2 days	£995.00 + VAT	09:30-16:30	Book
Introduction to SQL	Mon/Tue 20-21 October 2025 20-21 Oct	Online	2 days	£875.00 + VAT	09:30-16:30	Book
Introduction to SQL	Tue/Wed 21-22 October 2025 21-22 Oct	London	2 days	£1,425.00 + VAT	09:30-16:30	Book
Advanced SQL	Tue/Wed 21-22 October 2025 21-22 Oct	London	2 days	£1,525.00 + VAT	09:30-16:30	Book
SQL in Azure Data Studio (*)	Mon/Tue 27-28 October 2025 27-28 Oct	Online	2 days	£875.00 + VAT	09:30-16:30	Book
Fast track SQL	Wed/Fri 29-31 October 2025 29-31 Oct	Online	3 days	£1,350.00 + VAT	09:30-16:30	Book
Introduction to SQL	Mon/Tue 03-04 November 2025 03-04 Nov	Manchester	2 days	£1,050.00 + VAT	09:30-16:30	Book
Advanced SQL	Mon/Tue 03-04 November 2025 03-04 Nov	Manchester	2 days	£1,150.00 + VAT	09:30-16:30	Book
Advanced SQL	Tue/Wed 11-12 November 2025 11-12 Nov	Online	2 days	£995.00 + VAT	09:30-16:30	Book
Introduction to SQL	Mon/Tue 17-18 November 2025 17-18 Nov	Online	2 days	£875.00 + VAT	09:30-16:30	Book
Introduction to SQL	Tue/Wed 25-26 November 2025 25-26 Nov	London	2 days	£1,425.00 + VAT	09:30-16:30	Book
Advanced SQL	Tue/Wed 25-26 November 2025 25-26 Nov	London	2 days	£1,525.00 + VAT	09:30-16:30	Book
SQL in Azure Data Studio (*)	Tue/Wed 25-26 November 2025 25-26 Nov	Online	2 days	£875.00 + VAT	09:30-16:30	Book
Fast track SQL	Mon/Wed 01-03 December 2025 01-03 Dec	Online	3 days	£1,350.00 + VAT	09:30-16:30	Book
Introduction to SQL	Thu/Fri 11-12 December 2025 11-12 Dec	Online	2 days	£875.00 + VAT	09:30-16:30	Book
Advanced SQL	Mon/Tue 15-16 December 2025 15-16 Dec	Online	2 days	£995.00 + VAT	09:30-16:30	Book

Courses marked with an (*) are new courses (for these courses our usual no cancel guarantee doesn't apply).

If you can't see the course you want listed above, don't despair! If you can muster 3 or 4 people together, it may well be worth organising an onsite course at your office (we'll provide and set up the computers), or else an online course tailored to your needs.

Our SQL classroom training venues

What other people have said about our SQL training

Here are some comments we've received about our SQL + training. You can see all of our 485 reviews here. We would like to sincerely thank the clients whose names are shown below for kindly agreeing to let us share their feedback.

"The course tutor was very friendly and welcoming to the course. He worked at a perfect pace for us to follow along with and understand. The course content was just enough to get started and not to overload the learner. I would highly recommend Wise Owl and will use again. This course was chosen as it came highly recommended by a colleague who did the advanced SQL course."

Finley Gray

NWF Agriculture Ltd

"The course was perfect, really learned a lot for the two days. Trainer was very flexible and knowledgeable about good practice SQL."

Minesh Gokal

PEI Group

"Very enjoyable course, communication and procedure from start to finish was great as well. I had everything I needed well in advance, which is a huge plus; this meant no faffing around on the day-of and we were straight in there."

Bradley Swift

Torus62 Ltd

"Our trainer was very engaging and worked the often tricky format of an online classroom, very well. Plenty of interaction with attendees kept things interesting and avoided 'lecturing' type issues I've encountered with other training courses in the past. Course content felt relevant and applicable to my work and I learnt a lot!"

Jake Harrington

University of Lincoln

"Great training experience, fantastic and knowledgeable trainer. 100% suited to my needs, could not recommend enough"

Jaroslaw Borgul

Ifor Williams Trailers Ltd

"A great trainer and very knowledgeable! The confidence in his training was amazing and I knew that my understanding of SQL will be much better under his guidance. I liked how he was able to support anyone that was finding it hard or challenging, he didn't let anyone feel alone."

Raj Bains

PEI Group

About our SQL training

Sick of having to contact your IT people or third party supplier to get at your own data? Learn to write queries to get at it yourself, using either SQL Server Management Studio or (by request) Azure Data Studio. We run two scheduled courses: a two-day introduction to SQL course, and a two-day advanced SQL course.

If you're a quick learner you could consider combining these two courses together and attending our single three-day fast-track course (but only if you're a quick learner).

Two-day introductory course - selecting data using SQL

This course will show you how to write queries like the one below using T-SQL, the dialect of SQL used within Microsoft's SQL Server:

-- show how many films there are for each certificate

SELECT

c.Certificate,

COUNT(*) as 'Number of films'

FROM

Film as f

INNER JOIN Certificate AS c

ON f.CertificateID = c.CertificateID

GROUP BY

c.Certificate

ORDER BY

-- show most popular certificate first

'Number of films' DESC

This won't necessarily make much sense to you now, but it will do after the course!

Two-day advanced SQL course - programming stored procedures

This course assumes that you know how to write queries, and shows you how to program in SQL, including using variables, writing stored procedures and functions and using table variables and temporary tables. Here's a sample of what you'll learn to do:

CREATE PROC spListFilms(

@minOscars int,

@maxOscars int

)

-- list films winning this many Oscars

SELECT

f.Title,

f.OscarWins

FROM

Film AS f

WHERE

f.OscarWins between @minOscars and @maxOscars

Still not sure which is the right course for you? There's more help available here.

Finally, note that we're also big believers in teaching you not just how to write queries, but how to write them well, following our own internal SQL coding standards.

FAQs (Frequently Asked Questions

Click on any heading below to learn more.

How can I contact you with any questions?▼

You can reach us in one of the following ways:

Contact method	Details
Phone	Call us on (0161) 883 3606 and (within normal UK office hours) a friendly and helpful human will answer the phone!
Email	Send an email to our inbox and we'll aim to answer it within a couple of working hours.
Web	Fill in an enquiry form letting us know what you want to achieve, and we'll do our best to help!

Do you offer SQL consultancy too?▼

If you can't invest the time to learn to write SQL, why not let our SQL gurus do it for you? Get specific details about our SQL consultancy, or more general information about how our consultancy works.

Is there an easy way for me to assess my SQL skills?▼

You can take the following tests to assess your SQL skills on this site:

Skills you want to test
SQL (for SQL Server)

Each tests consists of 20 questions. The tests are free and anonymous, and at the end you'll see a full analysis of your results (as well as a comparison of how well you did relative to everyone else who has previously taken the test).

Do you have any SQL videos?▼

We've got the following videos on our site to help you to learn SQL:

Category	Description	Videos
Selecting data in SQL	Basic SQL teaching (approximately equivalent to the topics on our Introduction to SQL training course).	12
Advanced SQL (programming)	Creating stored procedures and user-defined functions, using variables, working with temporary tables and table variables, and all aspects of SQL programming (roughly equivalent to the contents of our Advanced SQL course).	18
SQL Server 2016	Videos on how to perform some useful system maintenance and admin tasks for SQL Server 2016.	9
SQL Server 2017	Videos on how to get started with SQL Server 2017 so that you can follow along with some of our other video series.	3

Do you ever blog about SQL?▼

For insights and education on writing SQL, have a browse through some of these blogs:

Blog topic
SQL

Do you have any other SQL learning resources?▼

In addition to our classroom and online SQL training courses, we also have the following learning resources:

Resource	Notes
Online tutorials	Learn SQL from our free online tutorials
Tips and tricks	Useful tips and tricks to make SQL easier

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